make an alias in winXP

zchoyt · 09-13-2004, 07:04 PM

In linux you can make alias commands in ~/.bashrc like

alias dir='dir /p'

Now when you type dir in command line it will treat it like 'dir /p'

Is there a way to do this in windows? Obviously one could write a prog that would just shell the other with the params, but looking for an easy way like in linux.

CroMagnon · 09-13-2004, 09:17 PM

Well, you can install cygwin http://www.cygwin.com and use bash under windows

You could also try 4NT from http://www.jpsoft.com.

Otherwise, I don't know of a way to do this other than writing batch files (but you couldn't create replacements for builtin commands like dir - that is, if you made a dir.bat, it wouldn't be run by default if you typed dir, regardless of your PATH).

On the other hand, if you want to alter the default dir, you can set the DIRCMD environment variable (see dir /?), but this is specific to each command.

zchoyt · 09-14-2004, 08:33 AM

Yeah, I thought about cygwin, but I wanted to see if there was an easier (smaller) way. Thanks for the thoughts.